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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783378503321

Titolo

The political economy of the Sherman Act : the first one hundred years / / edited by E. Thomas Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

0-19-772021-8

1-280-52534-7

0-19-536206-3

1-60129-792-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

347.303721

Soggetti

Antitrust law - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?; The Origin of the Sherman Act; Legislative Intent and the Policy of the Sherman Act; Wealth Transfers as the Original and Primary Concern of Antitrust: The Efficiency Interpretation Challenged; The Sherman Act and the Balance of Power; The ""Rule of Reason"" in Antitrust Law: Property Logic in Restraint of Competition; The Sherman Act and the Classical Theory of Competition; Antitrust Policy: An Economic and Legal Analysis; The Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis

An Antitrust Enforcement Policy to Maximize the Economic Wealth of All ConsumersLegal Reasoning, Antitrust Policy, and the Social ""Science"" of Economics; Antitrust, Law and Economics, and the Courts; The Modernization of Antitrust: A New Equilibrium; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the legislative history and the political economy of the Sherman Antitrust Act--the main federal statute that regulates economic activity in the United States. Tracing the evolution of the antitrust movement in the United States since 1890, this collection of essays examines the role of government in regulating markets, and the



balance it and its critics seek between the goal of limited government and the protection of free, open and competitive markets, With markets today being more international in nature and the world economy being globalized, Americans need to rethink ho